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" People aren't honest about the horrors of fame. The downsides are so overwhelming that, for me, there is no payoff. "

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" When I'm writing a pop song, I'll just write formulaically, strategically. "

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" I thought I was going to be an actor. I liked entertaining. I was pretty much tap dancing for attention from a very early age. My family was kind of musical, and there were people in the circus next door and actors across the road. I just enjoyed messing around with music growing up, but I really thought I was going to be an actor. "

" Fame made me develop a panic disorder. "

" I think I managed to trick people a little bit into thinking I'm more arty by making creative, artistic, visual work and applying it to commercial music. Maybe. I don't know. "

" I'm an advocate of 'it's not what you are, it's who you are.' "

" If Amy Winehouse was a beehive, then I guess I'm a blonde bob. "

" I'm trying to have some control over my image. "

" I really feel like I've nailed songwriting. It's my specialty; it's what I'm good at. "

" The truth is that you shouldn't match your insides to other people's outsides. Life is an inside job, and we just have to do our best. "

" I appreciate my music is famous, but I'd rather my face wasn't so that I can just live a normal life. "

" I think that, to some degree, being irreverent is the only reason I continue to be successful. "

" Just, whenever you can, get up and sing at a gig or jam. If you have a chance, take it and keep on getting up. Keep going - but not If people boo, 'cause that's just mean. I think that could be setting yourself for disappointment. "

" Probably from, like, 10 to 14 or 15, I would just listen to pop radio. "

" If anyone besides famous people knew what it was like to be a famous person, they would never want to be famous. "

" I was a slightly overweight, spiky-fringed, rat's-tailed '80s girl who was just showing up. That's all I've ever really done to get here, just kept showing up. Even when I didn't want to. That's what I do. "

" I don't want to be famous or recognizable. I don't want to be critiqued about the way that I look on the Internet... I've been writing pop songs for pop stars for a couple years and see what their lives are like, and that's just not something I want. "

" I think it's impossible not to see something you wanted happen to someone else and maybe wish it for yourself. "

" I love visual gags and gimmicks; I love them. "

" As a person, I'm a good person who shows up for my friends. I do my best to be good. As an artist, I have no idea. "

" I'm never going to sing the words, 'I want to shut down the club,' never, ever. "

" I'm acting a lot when I'm writing for other people. "

" I have social anxiety. It's easier up on stage because there's security in being there. When I'm off stage I'm trying not to be a manic freak. I'm quite shy. "

" It takes me, like, half an hour to write the lyrics for a song. They just come out. "

" I don't read reviews or interviews or anything, just because I'm afraid; If I believed the good, then I'd believe the bad, and there will be bad. "

" People call me for the ballads. Apparently that's where I've been pigeonholed. But it's really interesting and really fun. It's my favourite part of the job, writing. "

" I'm just completely obsessed with Die Antwoord. "

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" I don't need security detail; I don't need anything special. I just walk around, and I can do that, and that's a real luxury when you're in my industry. "